Where we share the beauty of the changing seasons on our 48 acre off grid homestead in the Cariboo Chilcotin. Where Touch Wood Rings are created, and where we live and work and play. 'The Homestone' is the name of the boulder that marks the entrance to our place.

Monday, January 21, 2013

We are basking in a Chilcotin Chinook right now. Beautiful warm days ~ t-shirt and picnic kind
of weather. Well, almost.

What happens to the Nivean world in a Chinook? It would be like the roof of your house dropping in on you. On these warm winter days the crust drops as the snow melts...‘Nivean/sub-nivean; a term I just learned …. the world under the snow. It describes the winter environment of voles and mice and insects who set up camp in that layer between what we see as the crust and the frozen meadow
below. Fascinating.

Beautiful.

These warm January days have offered the most magnificent light shows at sunup and sundown.

We've barely seen moose on the meadow since the big wildfires here a few years ago. We were sitting at the kitchen table the day before yesterday and David said
"I can feel someone watching me. There is a moose out there."
Three moose on the meadow !!! that he sensed were there before we saw
them. He is uncanny like that.

We
were on the lookout again this morning, knowing that once the swamp
donkeys arrive, they generally stay for a while. Lo and behold
David burst
out laughing as he spotted two BIG ears poking out of the snow down by
the
flagpole.

Sure enough there’s the young’un of the three moose … and once he was up
and about we got some good pics of him.